Watch: Everything to Know About League One Volleyball, LOVB, as Season 2 Is SetVolleyball players Juliann Faucette and Carli Lloyd are serving up some truths about parenting and professional sports. In short, moms can do anything. (Except, perhaps, negotiate with an irrational toddler mid-tantrum.) Because while they each imagined it'd be hard to hit the court after having kids-Carli shares daughter Storm, 4, with husband and fellow volleyballer Riley McKibbin; Juliann is mom to Tre, 5, and 2-year-old twins Ramsey and Ruby-they pretty much aced it. "In some ways, I am way stronger than I ever was," Juliann stressed in an exclusive interview with E! News, noting she's now "more in tune" with her body." And though she acknowledged reclaiming your core strength after creating a literal human "takes time-you have to put in the work, obviously, to repair it, you can come back even better." As long as you're surrounded by the right squad. Because when Juliann first attacked a return to the game, signing a contract to play in Italy roughly six months after having Tre, "Playing and being a new mom was very hard," she admitted. "Also, truthfully, the team wasn't very supportive. There just wasn't a lot of understanding of what postpartum looks like."photosAthletes and Their Sports Star KidsBut what it looks like in League One Volleyball (or LOVB, the organization's acronym, pronounced "love") is a true labor of, well, you know. Though Juliann was hesitant to suit up for another professional squad as a single mom of three, she says playing on LOVB Austin with longtime teammate and bestie Carli-a founding member of the women's sports league, now in its second season-very much set her up for success. While Juliann touts the nine-to-five schedule ("I'm home by 3 every single day to pick up my child from school"), Carli applauds the league-which airs weekly matches Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on USA Network-for their flexibility. Any changes to the schedule are addressed well in advance with Carli noting how coaching staff will stress, "'If it doesn't work out because you have plans to drop your children off, then we're not going to be upset about it.'" "And it's not special treatment," said Carli. "It's just an understanding of kind of the personnel that you have. And I think it's really cool to not feel shamed for being a mom."Julianne Faucette/InstagramShe and Juliann acknowledge that they each have to dig a little harder than their teammates without kids, usually sacrificing recovery elements like massages and ice baths. And while there have definitely been times "we've cried on the bus before," admitted Juliann, "when we were heading out for a long five-day, six-day trip," they're largely enjoying the ride. "We're fortunate to have a coaching staff that loves bringing the kids around," she stressed. "So they've come to practices, and they'll be on the court at games. And that's just an experience you can't recreate." As for the physical piece of hitting the court after birthing a baby, yes, it can be tough as a mother. "It was really hard for me," Carli admitted. "I was pumping six times a day to keep up with my daughter, lost a lot of weight. I was dizzy on the court-it was just all these things that you don't expect."For her, "I had to believe in my own self, because it is kind of crazy coming out of retirement," she acknowledged. "I spent two years away from the game, had a baby, came back. Three years away from the game, had two babies at one time, and came back. Like no one in their right mind should think that that's possible, because it's just hard." But that's what it means to be at the top of your game. "High-level athletics is not supposed to be, you know, anyone can do it," Juliann acknowledged. "My story is not a normal one, but it's something that I'm super proud of, and it allows me to then enforce that in my kids' lives, because if I can believe in myself and they see that, then they can do the same."Juliann Faucette/InstagramSimilarly, Carli's purpose is showing her daughter what a you-can-do-anything mindset truly looks like. "I want her to learn that hard work pays off," she explained of her preschooler. "I want her to dream big." And while she jokes that she sorta, kinda hopes that ambition doesn't take her to the hardwood, "I want to be able to show her, like, 'Yeah, let's do it and send it and lean into the hard.' Because I think that on the other side of that is where truly living a full life is." And should lightning strike twice and Storm sets her sight on playing, she'd join a long list of athletes who followed in their parents' particularly agile footsteps. For more athletes acing parenthood with their mini-mes, read on... (E! and USA Network are both part of the Versant Media family.) NBC via Getty ImagesMichael Jordan, Jeffrey Jordan and Marcus JordanConsidered by many to be the greatest basketball player of all time, it didn't come as a surprise that the Chicago Bulls alum's sons, Jeffrey Jo